Thursday, July 10, 2014

"The Staggering Cardoons , Irish/Appalachian Rock with influences of punk and alt country.

The Staggering Cardoons got their beginning in the late months of summer and early fall of 2008 while several of the members were just hangin out and playing music on various decks throughout Morgantown, West Virginia. Erik Rieder, Mike Brown, Nathan Justice(former member) and Mike Crawford(former member) formed the band originally started the group when they looked to their friend Chris Herrington to step in and tryout his vocals and ended up being exactly what they needed. Not long after Brown missed several practices due to work and Chris's room mate John asked to sit in on bass and immediatly meshed with the group. Mike who was playing bass at the time moved to guitar and mandolin which eventually would become full time mandolin. After several years and multitudes of lineup changes including Sara Rieder-Bennett (Erik's sister/accordion) Nick Sickles(fiddle) and several drummers they found the guys that would complete their sound in Drummer Greg Lowley and accordion player Matt Godwin. The two have been with the band since their first show which just happened to be the 2011 Staggerfest. The band recorded their first album late 2008 and released it in April of 2009 named "ThunderMug" and as mentioned before throw a local music festival called Staggerfest since 2010."